What a monster ! 4 tera SSD, 18 Giga RAM, 18 cores...
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#13What a monster ! 4 tera SSD, 18 Giga RAM, 18 cores...
With a monstrous price to go with it, no doubt. I'll be surprised if that config comes in under five figures.
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#14I would worry that something breaks after warranty expires and the whole computer can go out of the window. With regular good old desktops you can just replace the broken part. With such special custom made hardware it is sometimes impossible. For example the macbook airs have non standard ssd that is not replaceable, so when the disk dies, whole notebook is done...
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#15So how's this going to perform for Deep Learning?
Performance per $ isn't great, but the hardware is good. If you want to crunch data like a champion you need to spend the same $ on a desktop with a big fat GPU suited for GPGPU tasks and with proper cooling. The rest of the system doesn't really need to be insane, but you have to be able to keep up with the GPU.
I doubt the iMac can keep running with a high load over time without thermal throttling.
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#17Why is this an iMac and not a Mac Pro? Did they decide that the "can" wasn't being bought in enough numbers?
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#18If you want CPU/GPU power on a more realistic budget, I'd suggest something like the HP Z620/640.
Dual xeons, loads of disk space, and enough power to put at least two tiptop GPUs in.
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#19Seeing the history of updates to the Mac Mini and Mac Pro why would anyone trust Apple with a high end desktop computer? The odds are high that they'll keep pumping this thing largely unchanged for the next 5 years while letting the state of technology race ahead.
I'm saying this because no matter what Apple say, their focus is undoubtedly on what makes them the most money: iPhones.
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#20This is an impressive feat of engineering to get all that hardware into a that kind of a package, but man, I bet there are a lot of pros who'd have preferred an aluminum box that they could open up. No fixability / no upgradability is the price we pay for laptops, but does it really have to be the price for desktops? I'd think that swapping a video card or adding a drive or two is the sort of thing that one might do over the lifespan of this thing.
I guess after this machine is obsolete, there's a "screen mode" where these things can be used as a monitor and the 18 Xeon cores are powered down?